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A Life on Instalments
Paperback
Publisher: Nadeera Goonetilleke
Published: Feb 28 2026
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
You are not lazy. You are not stupid. You are Kapila.
Kapila is a manager in Colombo. Good job. Loving wife. Two children. A car in the driveway. From the outside - success. From the inside - three credit cards, a company personal loan, a vehicle lease, a housing loan, and a monthly debt that exceeds his salary.
Until a wise stranger showed him a method nobody had ever taught him.
This is not a book you finish and put down. It is a book you finish and open a notebook. You will write down every debt you owe. You will call your bank and request a hardship restructuring. You will stop paying minimums that keep you permanently trapped and start making payments that actually move the needle.
The Five C's - Clarity, Control, Confidence, Commitment, Consistency - are not slogans. They are a ladder. Each one builds on the last.
The car you're leasing could be paying for itself. The jewellery in your drawer could be temporarily working for you. The minimum payment trap is designed to keep you in debt forever - and there is a legal, dignified way out.
Water breaks rock not because of its strength, but because of its consistency. Be like water. Don't give up.
The debt is the stone. You are the water.
A Life on Instalments is practical. It is possible. And if your mindset holds -
it is inevitable.
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